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To: llevrok
Since we have drugs and Arab countries in the same topic here, the random factoid of the day is that the slang word for pot "hasheesh" is taken from the Arabic word for grass (another slang for marijuana), which is hashish.
6 posted on 02/08/2008 6:37:14 PM PST by G8 Diplomat (Currently learning Farsi so someday you won't have to)
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To: G8 Diplomat

Au contraire. “Hashish was derived from a word meaning “assasin “


12 posted on 02/08/2008 6:44:38 PM PST by kallisti (it's not that he's arrogant, it's just everyone else is insignificant)
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To: G8 Diplomat
Currently learning Farsi so someday you won't have to

Is it true Farsi and German have many common root words?

37 posted on 02/08/2008 9:15:52 PM PST by GOPJ (Take your ball - go home - sit this one out? Fifty years of liberal Supreme Court decisions? NO WAY.)
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To: G8 Diplomat
actually, it’s also the root of the word ‘assassin’, as these drugged out muzzies first got stoned before doing their deed.
43 posted on 02/09/2008 10:10:28 AM PST by tired1 (responsibility without authority is slavery!)
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